TOKYO, June 21 — Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet rose by nine percentage points to 36 per cent despite the recent arrest of his former justice minister on suspicion of vote-buying, a poll by the Mainichi Shimbun daily showed today. The approval rating had fallen to...
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TOKYO, June 21 — Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet rose by nine percentage points to 36 per cent despite the recent arrest of his former justice minister on suspicion of vote-buying, a poll by theThe approval rating had fallen to 27 per cent in the paper's previous survey conducted soon after a senior Tokyo prosecutor who was seen close to the premier resigned in late May for gambling during Japan's coronavirus state of emergency.
Prosecutors on Thursday arrested former justice minister Katsuyuki Kawai, a one-time foreign policy adviser close to Abe, and Kawai's lawmaker wife, Anri, on suspicion of vote-buying in a 2019 upper-house election. Abe has apologised to the public over the scandal, saying he felt his responsibility strongly for his appointment of Kawai to the post.
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